Marco Rubio Just Locked Up The 2016 Republican Nomination

GOP Golden Boy Marco
Rubio revealed the magnitude of his star power today,
delivering an impassioned speech on immigration that showed
exactly why he is the true heir apparent of the Republican Party.

Addressing a crowd of hundreds at the Hispanic Leadership Network
Conference in Miami, Rubio laid out a sweeping vision for
immigration reform and challenged his party's presidential
candidates to adopt positive positions on the hot-button issue.

The speech was masterful, laced with powerful emotion, humor, and
an impressive defense of free enterprise and the American dream.

Here's an excerpt:

We have always been a nation of haves and soon to haves, a
people who have made it and people who believe that given the
chance they will make it too. And if we lose that, we lose
the essence of what’s made us great in terms of economics.

And so, when the choices that are put before us today are
dangerous ones, because if we choose this path of pitting people
against each other, if we buy into this notion that our economy
really can’t grow fast enough for all of us to prosper so we’re
going to have to somehow empower government to distribute the
wealth of this country among us, we’ve chosen to become like
everybody else. We’ve chosen to become like the countries that
your parents and grandparents came here to get away from. And
that’s a powerful message. And that’s the message that we need to
deliver. And that’s the message we need to work on delivering.
It’s a winning message, but it’s a difficult message to get to
because the gateway issue of immigration stands in the minds of
so many people who we live next to and love.

With the nation's eyes on Florida's Republican primary next week,
the speech gave Rubio the opportunity to step up as a leader on
the immigration issue. The Florida Senator's rhetorical gifts and
genuine charisma underscored the weakness of the 2012 Republican
field, and presented Rubio as the man who can give his party the
positive message it needs to win elections.